This week we had to continue work on our monograms and begin to digitise them to get a more realistic feel of what they’d look like. to do this, I chose the design I felt had most potential and brought it to Adobe Illustrator where I began to try and bring it to life. I […]

This week’s task included creating six word plays in which the design of the word looks like the meaning of the word. this was an extremely fun task to do as it allowed you to be creative and expressive when choosing the words and recreating the structure of them.   These are the words I […]

Vic Bell is an illustrator, iconographer and brand designer, based in Durham, United Kingdom. She is a senior illustrator for Gitlab and has worked on many projects for many companies such as Uber and Burberry. I was very interested in her designs as they are very different for each project she is working on, showing […]

This week’s task is to continue brainstorming our ideas for our travel app and begin to create some wireframes of what we want our app to look like. To do this, it is extremely important that we start designing on paper with just a pencil to eliminate as many distractions as possible EG digital design […]

In today’s class we learnt all about Type anatomy and why it is so important. Typography is a vital component of user interface design. Good typography will establish a strong visual hierarchy, provide a graphic balance to the website, and set the product’s overall tone. The choice of Typography will also reflect your brand as people will […]

Before beginning to design my own monogram, I felt it was very important to research into other monogram designs to try and gain as much inspiration as possible to see what style I liked best. To do this I created a Pinterest moodpboard consisting of monograms and alphabet photography. I found this exercise very beneficial […]

After looking for Inspiration for my Travel app I began to create mind maps on what I wanted my app to be like. whilst I found both of these ideas very interesting, I was more drawn to focusing my app on the solo traveller as I felt there was more to include and I found […]

After our task of researching and creating moodboards of monograms and letterforms we liked and felt inspired by, we were asked to have a go at creating our own using our initials. This task was very enjoyable to do as we were told to just get as many design ideas as possible down onto a […]

Our project for this module is to create our own travel app. To start off this project it is important to get inspiration from some of the other travel apps that already exist so I decided to research some and see which I thought worked best. Sky Scanner Skyscanner is a very popular app for […]

This week’s task was to try and recreate the travel icons that were given to us to see how accurate we could get them.To do this I used Adobe Illustrator and experimented with tools to recreate the icons. I found this an extremely useful task as it helped me practise designing icons that ill be […]